A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.

Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years.

The results, based on brain scans of 94 people in their 70s, represent “severe brain degeneration,” said Paul Thompson, senior author of the study and a UCLA professor of neurology.

“That’s a big loss of tissue and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseases that attack the brain,” said Thompson. “But you can greatly reduce your risk for Alzheimer’s, if you can eat healthily and keep your weight under control.”

The findings are detailed in the online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping.

More than 300 million worldwide are now classified as obese, according to the World Health Organization. Another billion are overweight. The main cause, experts say: bad diet, including an increased reliance on highly processed foods.

Obese people had lost brain tissue in the frontal and temporal lobes, areas of the brain critical for planning and memory, and in the anterior cingulate gyrus (attention and executive functions), hippocampus (long-term memory) and basal ganglia (movement), the researchers said in a statement today. Overweight people showed brain loss in the basal ganglia, the corona radiata, white matter comprised of axons, and the parietal lobe (sensory lobe).

“The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than the brains of those who were lean, and in overweight people looked 8 years older,” Thompson said.

Obesity is measured by body mass index (BMI), defined as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters. A BMI over 25 is defined as overweight, and a BMI of over 30 as obese.

The research was funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Center for Research Resources, and the American Heart Association.

Lexicon of Fat Acceptance Terms

Anorexia: A very common condition that results in the deaths of MILLIONS of women each year. The primary cause is skinny models, and Hollywood waifs.

Bing Eating: A term that is used to describe a non existent condition.

Comment Section: A section of a blog where adherents post loud praise for the fat acceptance blog author’s post .

Dan Savage: The most evil man alive!

Diet: An extreme form of calorie restriction that occasionally results in temporary weight loss. This activity poses a high risk or causing anorexia.

Diet Industry: An evil Cabal of Jews, Trilaterialists, and late night infomercial advertisers who are attempting to dominate the world through manipulating health studies to encourage the sale of hoodia, and frozen meal entrees.

Douchehound: An intellectual term that Kate Harding uses to describe those who she particularly disagrees with.

Exercise: Strenuous physical activity, often engaged in by fat acceptance types, for example: playing with Cats. However, exercise has not been shown to result in weight loss. In fact many Fat Acceptance adherents exercised 2 hours a day with no results while eating nothing but lettuce, and found that no weight loss occurred.

Fashion Industry: A conspiratorial organization that is hell bent on forcing women of size to wear frumpy clothing, and to promote anorexia by utilizing uber-skinny models.

Fat and Fit: A scientific fact proven by the next to last place finishes by “fat girl on a bike” in many competitive triathlons.

Fat Hate Bingo: A method in which valid arguments are answered by shouting “Bingo” in a juvenile fashion.

Genetic Set point: If one eats intuitively (i.e. what ever the heck you want), your body will eventually reach its’ genetic weight set point. Note: sometimes a genetic set point will shift; typically upward do not be alarmed.

Intuitive Eating: Eat whatever the hell you want!

Kate Harding: A feminist prophet who offers obscenities of wisdom to those who willing to ignore science and accept her angry faith.

Lifestyle Change: See Diet. There is no known difference.

MeMe Roth: The reincarnation of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.

Myfatspouse.com: The most evil web site in the entire universe. It is highly inadvisable to link to www.myfatspouse.com.

Real Women: Overweight women who are sexier than skinnier women. This should be an obvious fact when discussing this subject on a fat acceptance blog. Remember, that all women are real women when discussing the subject with non fat acceptance types.

Second (2nd) Law of Thermodynamics (calories out must equal calories in): Physics is sexist!

Straw Men: A valid argument against fat acceptance.

Troll: Someone who posts a comment on a fat acceptance blog who does not match the author’s ideology EXACTLY.

When it comes to presidents the best ones are always fat. This is not to say that all fatlings would make great leaders. What I am saying is that the greatest presidents have been fat. William Howard Taft aka Big Bill was no exception and like the other fat Bill he accomplished a lot while in office.

Taft the innovator

Taft was the inventor of the 7th inning stretch in baseball. It turns out that he was at a ball game and the seats were uncomfortable so he stood up to stretch and so did everyone in the ball park just to get a look at him.

Taft knew the importance of a comfortable bath so he created the first super sized bath tub. Was this guy a visionary or what?

Taft the statesman and humanitarian

Taft sought to further the economic development of underdeveloped nations in Latin America and Asia through “Donut Diplomacy” but in return he had them sign the save the Land Whale Act that abolished the harpooning of American land whales and encouraged their feeding and expansion of natural habitats like Walmart and all you can eat buffets.

Like Clinton, chicks dug William Howard Taft.

President Taft was also a freak like Clinton and like Clinton and other fat boys he was known to be a great and cunning linguist and it is rumored that his wife slept in a meat locker so she would have the meat scent he liked on her.

I think what is most remarkable about William Howard Taft is that he was not only the fattest president but he was also the fattest supreme court justice. That fat boy Anton Scalia is going to have to eat a hell of a lot more pasta if he ever hopes to catch up to Big Bill Taft.

There you have it folks. The greatest man in US politics was a fat man.

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Kirstie Alley Looks Like Shit Now

Kirstie in her flabulous days with fellow gluttoness Oprah. Look at that luscious ham arm!

Skinny Kirstie Alley………….. Fat Kirstie Alley

Kirstie beefing up! YOU GO GIRL!

Kirstie really blossomed as a real woman when she beefed up to over 300 pounds. OINK! Back then she was a gorgeous girl glutton but sadly Kirstie has sold out once again. Any NAAFA girl will tell you that real women have curves but they are full of shit because all women have curves but real women have folds.

>I think we know know that Belly Boy made short work of those 8 Quadruple Bypass Burgers. I kinda knew he would. He raised the bar. I think it is only fitting that we let his fans create a new standard worthy of Belly Boy. Why should Belly Boy be forced to suffer with what to him are sliders.

Since the story of his pilgrimage to the HAG went public both Proud FA’s and my Email and voice mail have been swamped with pictures of burgers they created in honor of this historic event.

The Widow Maker

This one was presented by two fans and it is made with 100% pure bison burger. The mini burger on top is there to clog an collateral coronary arteries. Many fatlings grow extra arteries.

Cowabunga Burger

The Cowabunga Burger it made from 100% grass fed black Angus beef.

The Terminator

The Terminator is light on bread and veggies but BIG on meat and cheese. This mega meat bad boy burger get 70% of its 23,000 calories from fat. This burger is a low carb creation is great for anyone on the Fatkins Diet.

The Ultra Pig Weight Burger

The Ultra Pig Weight may even make Belly Boy pass on the fries. This is not just a precision giant burger this monster contains pork BBQ and crumbled bacon mixed into the meat. Add a little Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce to this belly buster.

The Glutton Tamer

The Glutton Tamer is throwback to the burgers mom would make. It uses a Sunbeam bread Bun 80% lean ground beef and a full block of Craft Velveeta Cheese.

>I Fat Bastard love the fall. That hot sticky summer weather has passed and we fatlings are much more comfortable but what’s better than that is that fall signals the beginning of the glutton season.

ZIGGY SAKKI ZIGGY SAKKI EAT EAT EAT!

First comes Oktoberfest. More sausage gets delivered at Oktoberfest than all the Proud FA’s laying dicks to the BBWs at a NAAFA convention not to mention the beer. While you won’t see me Fat Bastard donning a pair of lederhosen or dancing a polka you will find me wolfing down a plate full of brats, German potato salad and a few quarts of St Paulis.

Next comes gobblin time and I not just talking about ghosts and spooks or Turkey Day. I’m talking about the cornucopia of Halloween candy available to us gluttons not to mention they cider and donuts. I am talking about the bags and bags and bags of delicious candy available for pre Halloween gorging and don’t forget… save some for the trick and treaters. You don’t want to get your house TPed or your windows soaped.

Thinnette presents BIRDZILLA!

Kick your seasonal gluttony in to high gear. The pilgrims and Squanto never envisioned the deliciously decadent Thanksgiving that we have today. I’d write more about it but just the thought of past Thanksgivings is making me drool all over my keyboard. It’s not the turkey, it’s all the trimmings! YUMMMMMMM!

SeasonsGreedings!

Good King Wenceslas may have looked out on the Feast of Stephen but I Fat Bastard sat down and ate the whole fucking thing. Just when you thought you couldn’t take the break in celebratory gluttony any longer along comes the Yuletide Season aka Christmas — the greediest and most gluttonous time of year. You don’t have to wait until December 25th either. The eating starts long before that with X-mas parties and folks delivering goodies. The break between Thanksgiving and X-Mas is almost worth the wait. I said almost. LOL!

They don’t call it Happy New Years for no reason. New Years means one final mega food orgy. True gluttons don’t just use the X-mas leftovers because with true gluttons there won’t be any. Any resolutions made regarding diet and exercise will quickly melt away on Valentines Day more quickly than that big piece of Godiva Chocolate melts in your mouth.